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[mavrothal]

[Aitch]

Cool, thanks, Mavrothal

I didn't know about the lending facility.....I'll contact them

I've seen a few XO1's on ebay....but usually with damaged rubber keyboard

Is that an easy repair/where to get spares for an XO?

ilovemyxo.com seems to be dead....?

I saw an instructable on how to install a supermini usb k/b into an XO.....but the specified k/b isn't available anymore....so I wondered about a bit of surgery with one of these....?

http://preview.tinyurl.com/686cv3d

image

http://thmb.inkfrog.com/thumbn/gardenmn0/DCCC1614-4.jpg=600

Aitch

[mavrothal]

[Aitch]

Yes, the 1st...hadn't seen the second
....a bit of surgery was probably optimistic, but within capabilities, as long as I use a magnifier....my eyes won't let me do what my mind's capable of

I'll have to try a lender 1st, methinks...I might not like it....

Aitch

[mavrothal]

FYI

[mavrothal]

At the request of a user I made a pet that will invert the colors of the display or toggle between color and B&W mode.
Inversion of the colors is evoked by the second key from top right (the one with the 2 black filled rectangulars).
Monochrome-color switching in evoked by the top-right key (the frame key)
Might make your reading easier on the XO little (but high resolution) screen.
Enjoy

[sullysat]

First of all, I will admit that I didn't read all 13 pages... probably will but I wanted to ask this question while I was thinking about it.

Does anyone know a good source for the XO laptop? I really want to get one of these for my grandson.

Thanks,
Sully

[mavrothal]

[sullysat]

Thanks Mavrothal!

[mavrothal]

The latest JWM version (2.1.1) is xrandr aware and supports rotation fine
JWM is "kinder" than any other WM on the XO, so you may consider it instead of the default openbox WM, now that also supports rotation.
Menu>Desktop>Desktop settings.>Switch Openbox-JWM will do that for you.

The attached pet contains jwm-2.1.1 and modified olpc-rotate and olpc-rotate_shell scripts that will not block rotation anymore if jWM is running.

Update The jwm-2.1.1_2.pet also has 01micko's patch for bigger buttons and an install script that will make the window title bar thicker (30 instead of 22 points) - Note Apparently the original jwm-2.1.1_2.pet got corrupted! I have updeted it Jan. 30.

[Lobster]

Have put this on our wikki homepage as a featured puplet for a time
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HomePage

XOpup wiki page
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/XOPup

When the ARM powered OLPC is out we may have an upgrade path from Raspberry Pi . . . (out some time in February quite possibly)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9675748.stm

[mavrothal]

Here is a little pet that will add an applications-panel for JWM at the top of the screen.
The default is to be auto-hidden but can be changed by editing the /root/.jwmrc-tray2 file to: autohide ="false".
You can also add and remove apps there by adding lines with the format:
<TrayButton popup="Namer" icon="icon.png">exec:command</TrayButton>
You can see the relevant commands and icons in /root/.jwmrc, though often the /root/.jwmrc icons may be too small for the panel. Prefer a 48+ pixels or a scalable icon.

Update I made a new pet originally for Slacko that works also in XOpup. The nice thing is that it includes a JWM panel configuration tool. Check it out HERE

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